About

WHERE WE CAME FROM
We didn’t start out to reinvent the recruitment industry but rather refine it and add value by taking a consultative approach to executive search. We started with the aim of focusing entirely on the customer, steering away from cold recruitment strategies so we could concentrate on our passion – connecting real people.
Situated in a rural setting surrounded by beautiful countryside, we wanted to define a strong team culture by providing the best possible working environment for our employees. Despite the close-knit team we’ve created here, our business spans far and wide, both nationally and internationally.
WHO WE ARE
Our people have always been an integral part of the ever-growing Collingwood family and we surround ourselves with experienced, dynamic professionals. Our ethos is present in everything we do, from finding you the perfect candidate to investing in our own staff. We don’t just sell our values, we practice what we preach - putting all who work here at the heart of everything we do.

The art of 'fear-setting' to lead to success

When coaching we often come up against issues which are holding our clients back. Tim Ferris comes up with a great exercise for identifying what's stopping you from making a change. There are three steps:

Make your fears tangible. Define them, explore how to prevent them, and work out a strategy to repair the situation if they occur.

What benefits come from partial success? Note down your ideas, conservatively, from partial, not complete success after the change.

Determine the cost of inaction. If you do nothing, what will your life look like in the next 6 months, year, 5 years?

It's a great way of truly understanding what's holding you back from making a change or decision and will enable you to fully consider implications rather than acting on impulse or inertia.

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Before he became famous for his 2007 bestseller "The 4-Hour Workweek," Tim Ferriss was an entrepreneur struggling to make sense of what he wanted from life.
He came across a quote from the ancient Roman Stoic philosopher Seneca that deeply resonated with him: "We suffer more in imagination than in reality." This led him to reading Seneca's "Letters," and it was there that he came across the philosopher's exercise "premeditatio malorum," the "pre-meditation of evils."
Ferriss made some minor adjustments to the exercise, and gave it the more accessible name of "fear-setting," in contrast to goal-setting. He credits it with putting himself on a path to success, and he said he's repeated it at least once per quarter since.